S53 1918
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| S49 | 939 | Schichau, Elbing | 1914 | 10.4.1915 | 7.1915 | interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919 | |
| S50 | 940 | Schichau, Elbing | 1914 | 24.4.1915 | 8.1915 | interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919 | |
| S51 | 941 | Schichau, Elbing | 1914 | 29.4.1915 | 9.1915 | interned 11.1918, beached 21.6.1919, to United Kingdom | |
| S52 | 942 | Schichau, Elbing | 1914 | 12.6.1915 | 9.1915 | interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919 | |
| S53 | 943 | Schichau, Elbing | 1914 | 18.9.1915 | 12.1915 | interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919 | |
| S54 | 944 | Schichau, Elbing | 1914 | 11.10.1915 | 1/1916 | interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919 | |
| S55 | 945 | Schichau, Elbing | 1914 | 6.11.1915 | 3/1916 | interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919 | |
| S56 | 945 | Schichau, Elbing | 1914 | 11.12.1915 | 4/1916 | interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919 | |
| S57 | 947 | Schichau, Elbing | 1914 | 8.1.1916 | 5/1916 | sunk 10.11.1916 | |
| S58 | 948 | Schichau, Elbing | 1914 | 5.2.1916 | 6/1916 | sunk 11.11.1916 | |
| S59 | 949 | Schichau, Elbing | 1914 | 16.2.1916 | 7/1916 | sunk 11.11.1916 | |
| S60 | 950 | Schichau, Elbing | 1915 | 3.4.1916 | 8/1916 | interned 11.1918, beached 21.6.1919, to Japan | |
| S61 | 951 | Schichau, Elbing | 1915 | 8.4.1916 | 9/1916 | scuttled 2.11.1918 | |
| S62 | 952 | Schichau, Elbing | 1915 | 13.5.1916 | 11/1916 | sunk 10.7.1918 | |
| S63 | 953 | Schichau, Elbing | 1915 | 27.5.1916 | 12/1916 | discarded 11.1919, to Italy 5.1920 (Ardimentoso) | |
| S64 | 954 | Schichau, Elbing | 1915 | 21.8.1916 | 3/1917 | sunk 18.10.1917 | |
| S65 | 955 | Schichau, Elbing | 1915 | 14.10.1916 | 4/1917 | interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919 | |
| S66 | 956 | Schichau, Elbing | 1915 | 21.11.1916 | 5/1917 | sunk 10.7.1918 |
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Displacement normal, t |
S49 - 52: 802 S53 - 66: 919 |
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Displacement full, t |
S49 - 52: 1074 S53 - 66: 1170 |
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Length, m |
S49 - 52: 79.6 oa 79.0 wl S53 - 66: 83.1 oa 82.5 wl |
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Breadth, m |
8.36 |
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Draught, m |
S49 - 52: 3.64 S53 - 66: 3.60 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
S49 - 52: 2 Schichau steam turbines, 3 Marine boilers S53 - 66: COSOS: 2 Schichau steam turbines / 1 cruising steam turbine on one shaft, 3 Marine boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
24000 |
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Max speed, kts |
34 |
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Fuel, t |
S49 - 52: oil 252 S53 - 66: oil 305 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
S49 - 52: 1605(17) S53 - 66: 2450(14) |
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Armament |
S49 - 59: 3 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14, 2 x 2 - 500 TT, 2 x 1 - 500 TT (8), 24 mines S60 - 66: 3 x 1 - 105/42 Utof L/45 C/16 or TK L/45 C/16, 2 x 2 - 500 TT, 2 x 1 - 500 TT (8), 24 mines |
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Complement |
85 |
Project history: Belonged to the wartime mobilization programme, S49 and S50 being the replacements for S35 and S36. The enlarged S53-66 had a cruising turbine on the starboard shaft and carried more oil.
Modernizations: 1916, S53-56: - 3 x 1 - 88/42; + 3 x 1 - 105/42 Utof L/45 C/16 or TK L/45 C/16
Naval service: S62 was lost in action; S57 (10.11.1916), S58 (11.11.1916), S59 (11.11.1916) were mined in the Gulf of Finland, S64 was mined in Northern Baltic 18.10.1917, S66 was mined in the North Sea 10.7.1918. S61 was scuttled during the German retreat from Belgium 2.11.1918 in Terneuzen Canal (Flanders); S60 which was beached at Scapa Flow became a Japanese war reparation and was scrapped in England in 1920; S63 became an Italian war reparation and served under the name Ardimentoso until 1937.
© Ivan Gogin, 2014